A specially designed t-shirt featuring M.K. Perker’s “Robot” toy, exhibited at the Istanbul Toy Museum, rendered in his signature style. Made from 100% cotton.

The Story of the Toy: The word “robot” was first used in a work written in the 1920s by Czech author Pavel. Sunay Akın draws attention to the Wizard of Oz in discussing the origin of the robot. The tin man in this fairy tale is nothing more than an early example of a robot. The first robot toy, Atomicman, was produced as a wind-up toy in Japan in 1939/40. Production, halted by the outbreak of World War II, resumed in the 1950s.